Happy 450th Birthday, St. Basil's Cathedral

St. Basil's Cathedral
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Mythmaker
Legend has it that after St. Basil's, originally known as Trinity Church, was completed, Ivan IV had its architect blinded so that nothing like it could be built again. The above is an 1867 artwork called The Procession of Clergy Outside Moscow's City Walls.

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